{"id":1924,"date":"2013-07-10T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/10\/alain-tasse-joins-marcel-cote-tea\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:45","slug":"alain-tasse-joins-marcel-cote-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/10\/alain-tasse-joins-marcel-cote-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Alain Tass\u00e9 joins Marcel Cot\u00e9 team"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tracey Arial<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Alain Tass\u00e9 will run for the Verdun mayoralty under the Marcel Cot\u00e9 banner in the municipal election in November. He likes that Cot\u00e9 plans to run a coalition government in which candidates from opposing viewpoints can work together.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more time goes by, the more we are working by consensus. I want to continue this coalition philosophy, this way of doing politics. This is what Marcel Cot\u00e9 offers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tass\u00e9 appreciates the coalition model he has worked under since he joined the executive council formed by Michael Applebaum last November. He says it works better at the municipal level than legislative assembly-style politics does.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore the coalition, the mayor would stand and speak on a dossier and it would be difficult to vote against the mayor if you were in Union Montreal. I don’t want to exaggerate, because Gerard was not like that. It happened sometimes that some of us voted against the mayor and none of us were sanctioned, but there was unease in the caucus. There was grumbling. In the opposition, they studied a file and they said that they were okay with it, but they voted against it anyway. So they were uneasy too.\u201d<\/p>\n

He says discussions with councillors who have opposing philosophies takes longer, but he believes the extra time leads to better decisions. \u201cMost of the time, we get to consensus very easy. On the major topics, we have to talk. I have to let go of something and someone else has to let go of something else, so that we can negotiate something we can both live with. Once in a while, we vote. That’s that. That’s the form of democracy, we’re in. I like this way of doing business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tass\u00e9 says that what happened in the former city of Verdun under Mayor George Boss\u00e9 could happen in Montreal now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was elected in 1993 and I worked for one year under George Boss\u00e9,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a party, but it was only a party for the campaign to get financing and to have a unique platform and unique colours, but George Boss\u00e9 put up a team of people with many different backgrounds and many different areas of expertise. We complimented each other. I came from community organizations in housing. Someone else was a merchant. Someone else had sports. We did not have the same political views. I was a left winger and some of us were quite right wingers…What I liked from that team\u2014we were fourteen then, 13 councillors and one Mayor\u2014every one of us in our respective expertise was even stronger than the others, even than the mayor. That made Geoge Boss\u00e9 a strong mayor and I’d like to duplicate that. I’ve always like team work and to be surrounded by strong people.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the last month or so, Tass\u00e9 has finalized a team of six other people interested in running in Verdun with him. Some were elected to council under the Union Montreal banner and others are new to local politics. They aren’t quite ready to launch their campaign in Verdun, but plan to do so soon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not announced yet mostly because we are not sure of how we will go,\u201d said Tass\u00e9 during an interview last Thursday night. \u201cWill we form a local party? Will we want to join a political party called, say, Coalition Montreal, and present candidates under that banner? Or will each of us run as independents and support each other?\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, they’re focussing their discussions on their vision for Verdun.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to have a vision of how is it going to look in 20 years from now if I start working on it now. That’s what I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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